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Two of Rough N’ Rowdy’s biggest little stars settled their score for a real championship belt.

Barstool Sports’ amateur brawl series Rough N’ Rowdy has built a reputation on turning bar fights into pay-per-view spectacle, and at RnR 10 in Providence, Rhode Island, on November 22, 2019, the promotion handed its lightweight championship belt to the winner of a matchup fans had been asking for since the franchise’s earliest dwarf boxing cards. Casey “Smidge the Doorman” O’Connor, standing 4-foot-2, squared off against 4-foot-3 rival “King Pablo” in a bout the promotion billed as its headline “Mwarf War.” Three standard amateur rounds later, the clip was racking up millions of views online.

• Casey “Smidge the Doorman” O’Connor (4-foot-2) fought “King Pablo” (4-foot-3) for RnR’s lightweight championship belt at Rough N’ Rowdy 10.
• The card took place in Providence, Rhode Island, on November 22, 2019, and streamed on watchrnr.com.
• The bout, billed as the “Mwarf War,” ran the standard three-round amateur boxing format and became one of Rough N’ Rowdy’s most-viewed clips, drawing millions of views online.

The Setup at Rough N’ Rowdy 10

Rough N’ Rowdy built its entire identity on putting regular people — bar bouncers, bartenders, guys with more heart than technique — into a ring for three rounds and letting the chips fall. Smidge and Pablo were already fixtures of that world by the time RnR 10 rolled around, having become two of the promotion’s most requested attractions in its recurring dwarf boxing series. Giving them an actual championship belt to fight over turned a novelty undercard staple into the night’s headline attraction.

RnR pushed the fight hard across its digital channels and pay-per-view lineup in the lead-up to the event, treating the Smidge-Pablo rematch with the same promotional energy the brand usually reserves for its bigger celebrity brawls. The billing said it all: this wasn’t a sideshow bout tacked onto the end of a card, it was the main event fans were paying to see.

Smidge vs. Pablo Inside the Ropes

Once the bell rang, both fighters wasted no time. The three-round format left no room to feel each other out — Smidge and Pablo traded wild, high-volume punches from the opening seconds, playing to a crowd that showed up specifically for their chemistry. Neither man fought cautiously; both swung like the belt was the only thing that mattered, which, for that night, it was.

4’2″ Smidge the Doorman vs. 4’3″ King Pablo — three rounds, one lightweight championship belt, and Rough N’ Rowdy’s most-watched attraction of the night.

The pace didn’t let up across all three rounds. Fans who’d followed the pair through Rough N’ Rowdy’s earlier dwarf boxing cards got exactly the firefight they’d come to expect, and the finish left the lightweight title in new hands by the final bell.

A Viral Fixture in RnR’s Lineup

What separates the Smidge-Pablo rivalry from a one-off gimmick fight is how consistently it’s drawn eyeballs. The RnR 10 clip alone pulled in millions of views, cementing both fighters as recurring names on the promotion’s cards rather than a single viral moment. For a series built on turning everyday brawlers into pay-per-view draws — a strategy not unlike how martial arts skeptics have gone viral picking apart legitimacy in combat sports — Rough N’ Rowdy found in Smidge and Pablo two performers who deliver every single time they’re booked.

Smidge was already scheduled to return to the ring the following Friday, January 31, streaming on watchrnr.com, keeping the momentum from RnR 10 rolling straight into the next card. For a fighter who’s turned a nightclub doorman job into a recurring championship gig, that’s about as good a follow-up as it gets.